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Elliot L. Richardson Elliot L. Richardson
RICHARDSON, ELLIOT LEE Elliot Lee Richardson had a distinguished career in government service, including holding four different cabinet positions—the first person in U.S. history to do so. He was best known, however, for his brief tenure as U.S. attorney general under President richard m.... Read more
Analog Analog
ANALOG Information can be presented in one of two formats, analog or digital. The main difference between the two involves continuity. Analog information is representative of the way events or phenomena unfold in the real world. Mechanical wristwatches are an excellent example because the hands of... Read more
Chaperones Chaperones
Chaperones Molecular chaperones are proteins and protein complexes that bind to misfolded or unfolded polypeptide chains and affect the subsequent folding processes of these chains. All proteins are created at the ribosome as straight chains of amino acids, but must be folded into a precise,... Read more
Alienation Alienation
AlienationObjectification and estrangementRationalization and disenchantmentBIBLIOGRAPHYAlienation, or estrangement, is a concept of considerable antiquity, whose metaphysical origins have been veiled in the course of time by the progressive secularization of Western thought. Historians of... Read more
Chromatin Chromatin
chromatin The substance of which eukaryotic chromosomes are composed. It consists of proteins (principally histones), DNA, and small amounts of RNA. The DNA molecule is wrapped around the histones to form a series of linked globular nucleosomes, resembling beads on a string. This is itself coiled... Read more
Football College Football College
FOOTBALL: COLLEGE "Numerous and Major." "There is a firm feeling that we have turned the corner when it comes to major violations. We are getting on top of this integrity issue.…Ninety-nine percent of everything that is going on in intercollegiate athletics today is... Read more
Kathleen Jessie Raine Kathleen Jessie Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine 1908-2003, English poet and critic, b. Ilford (now in Redbridge, Greater London), grad. Cambridge, 1929. Raine's poems and essays assert that true poetry is an expression of the spirit, the unfolding of a reality often hidden by the material appearance of things. Raine wrote a... Read more
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY Few more challenging food safety issues exist today than that of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the human form of the disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). While vCJD remains rare at this time, the lack of a screening diagnostic test,... Read more
panorama panorama
panorama. ‘A picture of a landscape or other scene, either arranged on the inside of a cylindrical surface round the spectator as a centre (a cyclorama), or unrolled or unfolded and made to pass before him, so as to show the various parts in succession’ (OED). In 1787 a patent for... Read more
Today Today
TODAY. In 1952, no network television programming was scheduled earlier than 10:00 a.m. (EST). NBC president Sylvester "Pat" Weaver created Today with the idea that people might watch TV early in the morning before going to work and sending their children off to school. The two-hour show,... Read more

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